NEW BEDFORD — Eastbound traffic was stopped on Route 6 around 3 p.m. today due to a four-car accident at the intersection with Route 140 that injured at least three people and overturned one car.

Detective Captain Steven Vicente said one person was sent to Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. He could not confirm the injuries of the people involved or discuss what caused the accident this afternoon because police were still on the scene and had not yet filed a report.

By 3:20 p.m. , three of the four cars involved had been cleared from the intersection except for a silver Dodge Ram pickup truck that was overturned. The driver’s side window of the truck was shattered and its bumper was severely damaged.

Lorraine Medieros said she was sitting at her desk at Dr. Joseph Glennon’s optometrist’s office at 1212 Kempton St. when she heard “a big bang and crunching metal.” She turned around to see a silver pickup, “wheels up,” slightly on top of a sedan with two other damaged cars.

She said she also saw a man exit the overturned car “on his own.”

“It was quite the sight,” she said. “We are always hearing accidents at this intersection but this was the worst. It was like from the movies.”

She added that the intersection of Routes 6 and 140 was “totally blocked” and that cars were driving through the parking lot of One Stop Gas Variety Store, at the corner of Kempton Street and Brownell Avenue, in order to go around the crash.